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Axon guidance pathways served as common targets for human speech/language evolution and related disorders.
Brain and language - 1 Nov 2017
Lei Huimeng, Yan Zhangming, Sun Xiaohong, Zhang Yue, Wang Jianhong, Ma Caihong, Xu Qunyuan, Wang Rui, Jarvis Erich D, Sun Zhirong
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Human and several nonhuman species share the rare ability of modifying acoustic and/or syntactic features of sounds produced, i.e. vocal learning, which is the important neurobiological and behavioral substrate of human speech/language. This convergent trait was suggested to be associated with significant genomic convergence and best manifested at the ROBO-SLIT axon guidance pathway. Here we verified the...
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